The @FoxNews Twitter account has been silent for over 24 hours. A Fox News employee tells me Fox is choosing to stay silent while protesting how Twitter handled posts targeting Tucker Carlson — specifically the ones that included his address. address.
According to source, Facebook was prompt when alerted to posts that included his home address. Twitter support reportedly told Fox to "open a ticket" and did not remove the posts.
Fox already released a statement condemning the Tucker protesters but there has been no official statement on the Twitter protest/blackout. Source says the Twitter blackout decision came "from the highest level" of the company.
Source indicated Fox will remain silent until Twitter removes the tweets and apologizes for mishandling the situation.
A note - last several tweets from them are all breaking alerts. Don’t be surprised to see “breaking” tweets still going out during this “protest” involving Twitter.
is no one going to make fun of me for the “address. address” typo in the first tweet?
UPDATE: Around 8:30 a.m. ET Saturday, Greg Wilson (managing editor for FoxNews.com) sent an email to the entire digital team that instructed the team to "refrain from tweeting out our content from either section accounts or your own accounts until further notice."
It's worth noting the @foxandfriends account is tweeting. This email went to a distribution list of 100+ people who work on the FoxNews.com digital team, which is completely separate from the digital teams for Fox and Friends and the primetime opinion shows.
